Shun-Yu

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Shun-Yu was  born in feudal China not as the monster he is today but as a human by  the name of Shan Yao. Brought up by a rice farmer, he lived a simple  life until he was called into military service for his country at age  sixteen. After he served under a infantry unit for almost an entire  year, he returned home as a war veteran with nothing more then the  cloths on his back. Shortly after returning, he inherited his father‘s  farm after he pasted away and got engaged to his childhood friend, Tsao  Hung. With his new fiancee and home, things didn’t seem like they could  go wrong. However, hardships were soon bestowed on Shan Yao’s family.

An  unprecedented amount of rain fell during the wet season, causing the  entire country side to be succumbed to flooding. In a desperate attempt  to save his friends and family, he sacrificed his own live to save lives  of his family. With his village destroyed, Shan Yao’s friends and  family buried his body on the outskirts of town and rebuilt the broken  village to begin life anew. Over the years, Shan Yao’s fiancee replaced  him with another man.

Not wanting to be forgotten, Shan-Yao’s soul  separated from itself, causing the good and mature half to go to the  afterlife while the impulsive, childish half returned to his body.  Laying in dormant, the dark energies corrupted his body until it barely  resembled a human. Over the years, Shan Yao’s corpse gained enough power  to dig out of his grave. With little intelligence and virtually no  memory of his past, the undead knew only how to survive.

Though it  took decades, the corruption process started to reverse itself for the  better. He started looking more and more alive, with his hair changing  from dull black to pale white until eventually the lively gold it is  today. His skin changed from a rotting green to a pale, almost human  blue and regain most of his human intelligence, wisdom and memories.  Deciding it was for the best, he left his broken down village, taking  only what he was buried with and the only other thing to survive the  decades of wear and tear. Knowing he wasn’t Shan Yao anymore, he decided  took up the persona of Yao Shun Yu, a mischievous spirit that only  cares for itself.

During his travels, he came across a fighting  tournament simply called “The Fighting Grounds“ that took place in an  arena that took up a city block. Thinking it would be a complete waste  of time to compete in a contest filled with humans with no supernatural  powers, he instead headed for the nearest bar to get drunk and pick up  “the ladies”. There, he met a giant of a man drinking and boasting of  his glories in battle. Shun-Yu instantly knew he was a nut as he claimed  to be from “Asgard” and that he was sent to this realm as a prophet of  battle.

Thinking it would be worth the laugh, the intoxicated  vampire jokingly boasted that he could take the puny man in a fight.  What the foolish young vampire didn’t know was that the man WAS an  Asgardian and had mastery over the element of lightning. Needless to say  the vampire lost that fight. With the bar trashed and the barbarian  gone to fight in the tournament, unannounced to the young vampire,  Shun-Yu was forced to pay for the damages.

The now broke vampire  need money and money badly as his entire life style depended heavily on  it. This is when he remembered the fighting tournament and that it  probably had a huge payoff. Signing up, he cleared through the  preliminaries rather quickly as most of the contestants were regular  humans just as he earlier guessed. During the semi-finals he again saw  the Asgardian. Not one to hold a grudge, especially not when  intoxicated, the young vampire gained the respect of the proud warrior  and even befriended him before the rematch.

As the first real  fight he had ever participated in and was serious, Shun-Yu was forced to  improvise attacks and skills he now uses in his martial arts. While  sloppy in style and losing a limb in the process, the Asgardian had lost  the fight. Despite losing the next match to “The Famed Mimic”, he still  earned quite a bit of money. Seeing the Asgardian before he went away  on his travels, Shun-Yu and him had a pleasant exchange of word before  the barbarian declaring them “brothers”, which was more than an oddity  for the young vampire. Shun-Yu happily agreed and set off himself in  search more entertainment.

Shun-Yu would continue to hone his  martial skill and even became a famed fighter and mercenary. He even  moonlighted as an assassin just to get more experience fighting. However  most fights were not as fun as his first real fight. Knowing his  brother traveled to different realms he learned how to travel them  himself and sought him out to engage in combat. Visiting the Realm of  Aeolian Shun-Yu would find his brother and challenge him and his allies  to combat several times before joining their cause. He was even a  primary tutor for the hero of Aeolian. When the party finally reached is  final goal, the corrupt Goddess of the Realm, Shun-Yu was instrumental  in taking her down as he used his undying body to protect his still  living friends. He earned his nicknames and became a celebrated hero.

It  took 500 years of hardships and aimless wandering, but in the end he  earned riches past his wildest dreams and gained the respect of everyone  he had ever known. He even managed to reconcile with his fiancee and  even learned Talisman magic in order to do so. For the first time in his  afterlife Shun-Yu is truly content. Now he seeks to further his wealth  and find more opponents in far off realms.

While  he isn’t the smartest person around, Shun-Yu isn’t quite dumb either.  While being just as book smart as the average human, simple common sense  escapes him. This is because he cannot make rational thoughts as if  someone preformed a reverse lobotomy upon him. This is due to him not  having half of his soul and thus no true moral compass. While one  couldn’t tell by his constantly sporadic attitude, Shun-Yu is actually  is a down to earth kind of guy. He loves children and sometimes spends  years at a time goofing off. Most of the time, children tend to like him  back because of his zany antics; a trait that has served him quite well  over the years. The only thing he loves as much as children is money  and women.

A true pervert at heart, he hits on any women of at  least average looks regardless of circumstance or others around him.  This has gotten him into minor confrontations many times before, though  he has little choice in the matter. Having only the darker yet childish  half of the soul, he acts on his any and all of his impulses unless it  will get him seriously maimed or killed. Just as greedy as he is  perverted, nothing brings a smile to his face faster than the glistering  of the gold in his pocket. With his immature soul, he must act on his  impulses making him a true mercenary despite not even needing money to  sustain himself. The only things he won’t do for money involve harming  himself, his fiancee or his brother (permanently anyway).

When it  comes to having any social class, Shun-Yu is a lost cause. Childish,  clumsy and overall unmannered; he acts nothing like a superior form of  undead should. While he is an entity of darkness, Shun-Yu is more  interested in the finer things in life then he is with killing, maiming  or destroying. In fact, he cannot stand most evils for that very reason.  Because of his self-centered and carefree lifestyle, Shun-Yu has  managed to survive centuries with little hardships and doesn‘t plan on  changing his Laissez-faire ways.

While the lazy bum has never  truly worked a day of his afterlife, Shun-Yu is somewhat dedicated to  his martial arts training. His training has helped on multiple occasions  and has actually started to enjoy skirmishes. While he doesn’t normally  openly seek out competition, he occasionally indulges himself with such  competitions just for the experience. Not wanting to maim or kill his  opponent, he often pretends to be cowardly and will flee fights he could  easily win.

Shun-Yu isn’t a physically imposing person; standing only at 5’4” and weighting a mere 95 pounds, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in  presence. With his arms enlonged even when relaxed, one can just tell he  isn’t human just by looking at him with his head in particular looks  different than a typical human’s. Baring a shark toothed grin most of  the time, he gives off a disturbing vibe. His ears are lengthened and  pointed as an adaptation to hear better while his eye sockets are  darkened due to decomposing. Being amber in color, his eyes themselves  seem normal while he’s calm albeit the coloring. When enraged however,  his pupils disappear and the whites in his eyes seemingly disperse into a  sea of blood. While his hair stretches far past the ground being nine  feet in length, his eyebrows are thinned into nonexistence and has no other body or facial hair.

Always eager to fight, Shun-Yu sounds cocky and hotheaded. Despite his actual age he still sounds like a young adult. This is due to him only being 19 when he kicked the bucket. 

Grimfall:  A badass weapon with a badass name, it originally was nothing but a  finely cared for gardening implement that served as a keepsake from his  homeland and past. While he had to replace the all of the original  components due to the elements, it is still rather sentimental to  Shun-Yu. As a weapon itself, it surpasses all but the best. The shaft,  being longer then a regular shovel, is about five feet in length and is  solid Chinese Yew. While it can still be used to dig, Shun-Yu slightly  reshaped the blade as well as sharpened it. This made it more like a  partisan, though it still has the broader blade of the shovel. This  allows him to slash and chop with it while making it unwieldy to those  not used to the extra weight. At the end of the shaft, there are some  decorations so it wouldn’t look plain, but serves no other function. As a  memento, young vampire has an affinity towards his weapon. As such, he  can send the weapon to the ethereal plane and back on will. Because  Shun-Yu invests some of his spiritual power inside the weapon, it can  repair itself in a matter of seconds using at the cost of a portion of  his reserve energy. Despite this, it is still just an ordinary shovel  albeit the one used to bury the young vampire after his unfortunate  demise.

Hair Ordainment: Originally used to pin down his hair so  that it wouldn’t fly around when he was channeling spiritual energies,  Shun-Yu found that this simple hair ordainment was an effective weapon.  Nothing more than a ten pound weight at the end of his pony tail with  his hair tied around it; his ability to move his hair allows him to move  the ordainment at a relatively fast rate, turning this accessory into a  single ended meteor hammer. Being fast and strong enough to break bones  with relative ease on a decent hit, he must gain speed and momentum in  order to do any damage. While this gives this weapon a fairly slow and  predictable start up rate, it is quite effectual when completed.

Bead  Prayer Bracelet: Worn on his left hand, Shun-Yu is never seen without  his bracelet. Being made solely out of clay and red paint, it is  miraculous that it is still in perfect condition. This is because it was  originally his fiancee‘s. Shun-Yu received them when his fiancee buried  his body so that he would always remember her. Because of it’s origin  and its affinity towards the undead, Shun-Yu can channel energies from  the ethereal plane into the bead memento. Shun-Yu can focus his energy  for a moment to increase any of his attacks by 75 percent.

 Dark  Ascension: An eerie artifact from Shun-Yu’s past, it is possibly the  most efficient non-magical shield the young vampire could ever find.  Being over six feet in height, a half a foot in depth and weighing more  then 200 lbs, it would literally be impossible for the young vampire to  use as a tower shield if it wasn’t for his affinity towards it reducing  it‘s weight to zero. Originally being the coffin he was supposed to be  buried in, Shun-Yu strapped two leather bands onto it’s lid so he could  use it as a shield. Since it has affinity towards Shun-Yu much like  Grimfall, the young vampire can send the dark artifact to and from the  ethereal plane and repair it on the spot. While the young vampire usually summons only the lid, he can in fact summon the entire coffin.

Undead  Physique: Shun-Yu has the physical structure closer to that of the dead  then a living being. While he can withstand blows that would normally  kill any human, a strike to a vital organ such as the brain or the heart  will still kill him. Like most undead, he doesn’t need to eat, breath  or sleep since he gets his nourishment from spiritual energy. Being an  animated corpse, he is highly resilient if not immune to paralysis,  disease, poison, electricity, cold, and negative energy. Due to the  adverse effects of Rigor Mortis and the corruption from the negative  energies within himself, his basic physiology was greatly mutated. All  of his appendages were altered so that they have the ability to stretch  several feet. Having a max reach of 385cm, he can chip away at enemy  defenses long before most can reach him. His hands in particular were  corrupted to better suit his bloodthirsty habits. His hands appear  normal save long black nails unless when he is agitated. At such a state  his hands enlarge, turning each finger into nothing more than large  exposable claws.

Even his face was altered by the dark forces  inside of him. His eyes glow a monstrous hue to strike fear into those  whom oppose him, while his teeth turned jagged to rip through the flesh  of others. His tongue became deformed, becoming black and thin in  appearance. Like his arms, it is able to stretch to inhuman proportions  and is able to lift and carry simple objects. One of the favorable  effects of the dark energies within himself is it corrupted his body is  that he is far stronger than regular human. While he is a relatively  small character, he is easily twice as strong as others his size. One  aspect of his physiology that was altered greatly was his legs. Able to  leap great distances, the young vampire can survive much higher jumped  falls than that of a normal human and is virtually immune to falling  damage. He is also capable of great acrobatic feats in midair even  without his levitation. In addition, his kicking potential is  phenomenal. Despite this, he usually uses his arms in fights since he  doesn’t have claws on his feet.

Spirit Manipulation: One of the  adverse effects of becoming undead was the lost of his sight though in  return he gained the ability to see into the ethereal plane of existence  as well as an acute sense of hearing. These adaptations allow Shun-Yu  to track humans for sustenance. Over the years, he gained the ability to  alter and control the spiritual energies around him, not just absorb  them for nourishment. As Shun-Yu uses this for everything, there are  some innate abilities he can use without thinking.

☯ Soul Drain:  By touching the victim, he can drain a portion of their soul and absorb  it to feed himself or increase his reserve energy. If he holds on for  too long, the victim‘s soul will be completely devoured and they will  perish. If someone were to die by this mean, they will be risen as a  mindless undead under his control. Though he cannot drain through  thicker materials like steel, he can easily take spiritual energy  through materials like cloth. For unexplained reason, the process of  stealing souls is longer or even impossible on certain individuals.

☯  Airdashing: Shun-Yu can defy the laws of gravity by using the ethereal  energies within and around him to lift his body in any direction he  chooses. Gaining effectively a second jump or propelling himself in a  single direction, Shun-Yu can use this ability to dodge in mid air. He  can use this up to three times every time he jumps.

☯ Spirit  Extraction: All spiritual energy is broken up into two main forms,  positive and negative energy, with positive representing holy and  negative evil. By separating the opposing forces from each other,  Shun-Yu can align any of his pulse attacks at the cost of half  efficiency. To prevent harming himself with excess positive energy, he  stores excess in the ethereal plane.

☯ Spirit Exchange: One cannot  create or destroy energy, though one can exchange it for another form.  By sending negative or positive energy into the ethereal plane, he can  exchange it for the other. As it takes energy to access the ethereal  plane, some of the energy is lost during this process. In conjunction  with Spirit Extraction, effectively turn spirit energy into light or  dark energy with minimum energy loss.

☯ Megaton Punch: Many  combatants who use spirit attacks use a soft palm to strike an opponent  with their chi instead of their fists. The young vampire thought that  was stupid as one can hit them with both at the same time. While his  normal punches are imbued with spiritual energy, he can take his attacks  it to the next level. By releasing an amount of energy that actually is  self damaging to the user, it causes the young vampire’s punches to be  able to lift the average combatant several feet off the ground. He  cannot, however, sustain that forever and thus uses that to damage  studier opponents.

☯ Hallow Shell: By surrounding himself in a  small layer of ethereal energy, Shun-Yu creates a small barrier around  him. Since it follows his every movement, it does not inhibit his  mobility and he draws in any amount of the barrier that isn‘t used up to  protect himself, recycling it for later use. To be at max proficiency,  the barrier can only be paper thin, giving him equal protection only  that of leather armor.

☯ Astral Projection: Shun-Yu learned he  could do this upon accident. It causes his soul to leave his body so it  can travel on its own. Since it doesn’t have any combat uses, the young  vampire considers it “lame” and never uses it outside of contacting  brother to set up fights.

Dark  Pulse: Releasing some of his spiritual energy in an explosive blast,  Shun-Yu can create a wave of energy to damage his opponents. When used  on the ground, it rises out of the earth and flows straight until it  reaches its final destination. When used in the air, the wave of energy  is launched in a crescent shape towards his opponent with similar  properties. Despite being harder to hit with then some of his other  techniques, Shun-Yu prefers the Dark Pulse over them for mundane combat  due to it being the most energy efficient. Though it is called Dark  Pulse, it is neutral in affinity unless Shun-Yu decides to alter its  properties.

 Spirit Pulse: By concentrating his spirit energy into  his index and middle fingers, he releases it as an airborne projectile.  Usually taking the form of a ring projectile the size of a cannonball.  Being the most accurate of any of his attacks, Shun-Yu usually saves  this attack as an unpredictable finisher. He got the idea of this attack  by watching a children’s television program.

 ☯ Cluster Pulse: As  a mixture between Spirit Pulse and Light Pulse with a twist, it is  easily his most powerful yet energy inefficient attack he currently has  in his arsenal. By launching a spirit orb at his opponent at a high  velocity, it explodes into several orbs upon close proximity to an  opponent. While powerful close to the initial explosion, the  effectiveness of this attack decreases exponentially the further it goes  much like a shotgun. As it is highly inefficient, using this attack  even once wears out the user and thus is only used when absolutely  necessary.

 Grudge Pulse: A commonly found weakness of most energy  based attacks is that they all are susceptible to being absorbed.  Thinking that was a stupid weakness, Shun-Yu came up with a solution to  that minor problem. Concentrating energy into his hand, the young  vampire a rather slow moving wave of energy that homes in onto a target.  While the damage it causes is minuscule at best, its properties when  absorbed are what make this attack useful. When the attack enters the  mana reserves or other energy reservoir of the opponent, the attack  forcefully transports a large deal of energy to another plane. This  effectively drains the opponent.

Circle  Trap Basics: Shun-Yu pulls in ambient spiritual energy from the air and  within himself to a single point on a surface. The point will be  encircled by a glowing red circle with an indicator on it. This  indicator is only visible to Shun-Yu and his allies. When someone steps  on the circle trap or Shun-Yu remote detonates it, the trap activates.

☯  Ambient Pulse: Shun-Yu creates a circle trap with a spike indicator.  When activated, it glows for an instant followed swiftly by a blast of  spirit energy. The crimson red blast acts like a sudden spike of energy  shooting perpendicular from the surface. The blast has a concussive  force meant to propel the opponent up from the ground, down from the  ceiling and so on. Unlike his other attacks, this ability doesn’t use  much of Shun-Yu’s energy and thus is only as effectual as the amount of  spirit energy used and pulled from within the air.

☯ Vacuum Pulse:  Much like Ambient Pulse, Shun-Yu focuses energy from around him onto a  surface in his range of vision, but that’s where the similarities end.  Instead of releasing all the energy in a single burst to inflict harm,  this pulls the opponent towards the surface over a gradual period of  time, Like every one of his attacks, the more energy he puts into it the  more effective it becomes. While this can never inflict harm to an  opponent, it is highly effectual at pinning an opponent down so that  other, more dangerous attacks can be pulled off. While Shun-Yu can align  this attack with either positive or negative attributes like any other  pulse attack, it is pointless to do so as it doesn’t inflict damage. The  indicator in the middle of this circle trap is a tornado.

☯  Vector Pulse: Unlike Ambient Pulse and Vacuum Pulse, this trap doesn’t  forces his opponents up or down, but rather in a direction of his  choice. Indicated by a deep dark red arrow in the middle of the circle,  anything entering the parameters of the area of influence is tossed  aside like a rag doll. It is mainly used to force an opponent toward a  trap or launch himself towards or away from said opponent.

☯  Shield Pulse : Having a kite shield as it’s indicator, this trap creates  a pillar of light whenever someone touches the circle. Having a unique  property of slowing down anything in it’s proximity, this trap causes  nothing within it’s area of effect to be able to move faster then a half  a mile an hour. This effectively stops most offensive. This attack  lasts 3 posts when activated.

☯ Counter Pulse : Shun-Yu’s only  circle trap that activates when something goes over it instead of being  touched. Having a bent arrow as the indicator, this trap has a the  ability to redirect projectiles. Teleporting in midair, the projectile  appears in the same place but faces a different direction. This trap  cannot effect living creatures nor can it effect ground based attacks.

☯  Guided Pulse: Creating a circle trap with a target for in indicator,  the trap itself does nothing except forewarn opponents for the  devastating attack that follows afterwards. The moment the trap is  placed, a large serge of energy rushes out of the young vampire and  flies straight upwards. This is when the trap goes stagnant until the  opponent steps on it. When this is achieved, the surge of energy, which  collects ambient spiritual energy in the air, comes crashing down onto  the trap. Upon hitting the trap, the attack explodes causing a radial  effect. The size of the radius is dependent on how long the attack  remained inactive.

☯ Pulse Change: A support ability created  solely for his trap attacks. By exerting a rather small amount of  energy, Shun-Yu can change one trap into another. This is especially  effective with Vortex Pulse and False Pulse.

☯ False Pulse: Much  like one of his real traps, Shun-Yu places a circle of energy onto a  point with an indicator on it. This “attack” however, does nothing and  dissipates when stepped on. Unlike the other traps, it has several  unique properties to it. For instance, Shun-Yu doesn’t need to  concentrate on it to maintain it and can create several false traps as  he places a real trap. It is also the only trap that doesn’t have a set  indicator, causing it to appear as whatever he feels like.

Mine  Trap Basics: Controlling the battlefield is intuitive for a defensive  combatant, so having more then one kind of trap becomes a necessity. By  placing an orb in midair, this orb absorbs ambient energy and remains  stationary or gradually floats in a single direction. Much like the circle traps, they have indicators on them to show what kind of trap it is to his allies.

☯ Light Pulse: The original mine trap. By  focusing a portion of energy on a single point, Shun-Yu can create an  orb that either remains stationary or floats around slowly. When someone  comes within close proximity to or touches it, it explodes in a wave of  spiritual energy. While Shun-Yu must focus on the orb in order to  maintain it, he can have up to ten in play at a time. Much like Dark  Pulse, spiritual energy is inherently neutral unless Shun-Yu alters it’s  properties. The indicator for this trap is a star.

☯ Scatter  Pulse: This orb, having a spiked ball for an indicator, detonates when  someone gets too close towards it. Much like a grenade, it sends  shrapnel or “needles” to shoot out in all directions to his opponents  that are to fast to hit or are invisible to the young vampire.

☯  Rejuvenating Pulse: Shun-Yu isn’t the kind of guy to play healer, but he  has been forced into this role in combat numerous times. With a red  cross as it‘s indicator, this orb releases healing energy that heals  when touched. Unlike most forms of healing which is positively aligned,  this technique is neutral and thus heals the undead instead of killing  them though it cannot heal himself.

☯ Magnetic Pulse: With a plus  and minus sign as it’s indicator, this attack draws forth energy towards  it. Unlike other traps, this one must have an morality alignment  assigned to it as it draws the opposing alignment towards it. This pull  is strong enough to pull an average man into the air, though one with  strong enough will can resist it’s effects.

☯ Shield Pulse Alpha:  Much like the circle trap variant, this trap envelops his opponents in a  light that acts much like molasses. Unlike the circle trap variant,  this trap grows into a large sphere 10 foot in diameter. This trap also  has a kite shield as its indicator. This attack lasts 3 posts when  activated.

☯ Pulse Change Alpha: A support ability created solely  for his trap attacks. By exerting a rather small amount of energy,  Shun-Yu can change one trap into another. This is the same as Pulse  Change, though it effects Mine Traps.

☯ False Pulse Alpha: Much  like one of his real traps, Shun-Yu places an orb in midair. This  “attack” however, does nothing and dissipates when stepped on. Unlike  the other traps, it has several unique properties to it. For instance,  Shun-Yu doesn’t need to concentrate on it to maintain it and can create  several false traps as he places a real trap. It is also the only trap  that doesn’t have a set indicator, causing it to appear as whatever he  feels like.

Shock  Pulse: By forcing a large quantity of spirit energy into both of his  hands and simultaneously bringing both towards each other, Shun-Yu can  create a burst of energy that surrounds him. Designed to take out large  groups of enemies, the attack is energy inefficient though is almost  guaranteed to knock back any opponent. As it centralizes on his hands,  the sphere of influence of the attack stretches out further in front of  the young vampire then behind him.

Idiot's Manifesto: Shun-Yu  knows that he can take much more punishment than any other combatant due  to his undead nature. Focusing his soul on the soul of an ally, Shun-Yu  instantly switches place with them. This short range teleport isn’t  without limitations though. He his target must be a living creature with  a soul and must be willing to swap in order for this technique to go  off.

 Undead Resolve : The young vampire is known in underground  fighting rings as “Shun-Yu the Restless” for his outrageous ability to  stand up after any attack. While lacking a natural form of regeneration,  Shun-Yu can use half of his max spiritual reserves to completely heal  all damage sustained. Shun-Yu accomplishes this by a highly complex and  limited form of teleportation. Thanks to the law of conservation of  mass, Shun-Yu’s body is technically invincible. Using this principle,  the young vampire recalls his body to himself in all the correct places.  This effectively heals any and all of the Jiang-Shi’s wounds. This  ability was developed to help keep up with his brother’s tenacity and  endurance.

Precision strike: By using Grimfall as a medium and his ability to sense  spiritual energy, Shun-Yu can supercharge his weapon that shatters  objects at their weakest spots. Though it can affect any form of  inanimate object, Shun-Yu has only practiced with the five Chinese  elements, particularly stone. This is mainly due to Grimfall being a  shovel. While this technique isn’t meant to be used on fire or water as  they are free flowing and regain their form in a matter of seconds, one  can use this technique to part attacks. Because Shun-Yu cannot see  inanimate objects, he must have Pulse Emission active to use this  attack.

 Geo Vandalism: While Grimfall is a badass weapon on its  own right, it is and always will be a shovel. Being a gardening  implement, it is meant to dig. Using Pulse Emission to sense the  impurities in the ground below and fusing his weapon of choice with  spirit energy Shun-Yu can dig faster then any man or beast. If motivated  enough, Shun-Yu can move passed ground almost as fast as he can through  air.

 Drill Assault: By creating a field of energy around  Grimfall, Shun-Yu causes it to swarm in a spiral pattern and pull his  weapon in a single direction. Holding onto Grimfall as he does this, he  propels himself towards his opponent in an attempt to drill through  them. While he “could” do this without his weapon, being able to focus  his energy through Grimfall makes it act as a conduit and thus more  efficient.

 Dark Sanctuary: By using Dark Ascension as a medium,  Shun-Yu creates a ten foot square in front of his person. The square is  incredibly durable in comparison towards Hallow Shell, though it is in  no means indestructible. Shun-Yu can only maintain it for a few seconds  and if something were to happen to Dark Ascension it would dissipate.  But the technique wasn’t developed to protect against large amounts of  damage or melee attack, but rather it’s interesting properties towards  energy. Instead of resisting energy based attacks, it absorbs the energy  and converts it into dark energy before releasing it back towards his  opponents.

 Villainous Upper: Surrounding his tower shield in dark  energy, Shun-Yu performs a jumping uppercut in which the user spins and  rockets upwards with some horizontal movement as well with enough force  to knock the opponent off the ground. The dark energy siphons latent  magical energy to boost it’s effects and grants the user momentary  resistance to magic. This attack must be used with his shield and thus  is unable to use it without it drawn.

Hair  Manipulation: By manipulating the latent spirit energy in his hair,  Shun-Yu can control it as if it was an extra appendage. This enables him  to control its movement as well as alter its length and shape at will.  His hair, nine feet in length when relaxed and braided, can elongate to  twice its normal length much like his limbs. While his hair isn’t  prehensile, he can wrap portions of it around objects and lift them that  way. Being only as durable as normal hair, he has to rely on his Hallow  Shell to keep it from getting torn or cut.

 Annoying Presence:  Pulsating a large aura around himself, all creatures intelligent enough  to be aware of their own existence feels a pulsating sensation in the  back of their head. While this is going off, it becomes increasingly  hard to focus on other tasks and causes other forms of discomfort such  as pain and vertigo. Because of this, living creatures tend to focus  their attacks on the young vampire. This attack deals no real damage and  all effects end when Shun-Yu stops it.

 Pulse Emissions: By  pulsating spirit energy from his body, he can see where the energy is  absorbed into (living) or moves around (inanimate) without harming  anything. Interestingly, creatures holding their breath are seen as  inanimate objects to Shun-Yu. While Shun-Yu has the ability to remove  one of his weaknesses, it is rarely ever used. This is because it wastes  energy, weakens his attacks and breaks his concentration. With his  concentration broken, any traps he previously placed are destroyed. It  also has the side effect of augmenting living creatures by them  absorbing these energies. The only time he ever uses this ability is to  use a follow up attack or when he gets lost inside a building.

 Afterimage:  Shun-Yu can envelop himself in a spiritual aura and can create a second  self by manifesting a portion of his spiritual energy in a chosen  location a few moments later. The afterimage mimics exactly Shun-Yu's  previous or current attack down to the exact amount of force behind it.  Being physical manifestations of spirit, the clones are unable to  maintain their form and dissipate no more than a second afterwards.  Multiple images can be made, at of course the cost of exponentially more  energy.

☯ Afterimage Alpha: While Afterimage creates a spiritual  clone that follows Shun-Yu’s current or previous actions to a tee, this  version of it doesn’t create a full copy of himself. Instead, he rapidly  recreates his arms or legs while throwing a volley of punches or kicks  of his own. The final effect is similar to a mob of people viciously  pummeling on someone.

☯ Afterimage Beta: An illusionary attack at  it’s finest. Before an attack, Shun-Yu can send forth a image of what  he’s going to do before he does it. The image is that of what exactly he  is going to do, though being an illusion it cannot physically harm  anything. While called Afterimage Beta, this attack actually creates a  Preimage to confuse the young vampire’s foes. The only indication that  his opponent gets that Shun-Yu is performing this attack is the red aura  he gets every time he uses his spiritual attacks.

 Primordial  Chaos: Shun-Yu’s penultimate move, or that’s what he’s call it when he  perfects the attack. Currently an underdevelopment move, it involves  using all of his reserve energy in one concussive burst. Using both  positive and negative energy, theoretically it can create a burst of  pure destructive energy that devastates everything in its wake.  Unfortunately, positive and negative energy often negate each other or  fuse back into spiritual energy, causing most of the energy to escape,  leaving little spiritual energy in its wake. While it does produce some  energy that isn‘t the former three, it isn’t enough to cause any  significant damage. Shun-Yu based this unfinished move off of the  principle that a hurricane is formed using both hot and cold air. The  one time this move was pulled off correctly it was strong enough to stun  a Goddess long enough for the hero of Aeolian to finish her off.

Magic:  Shun-Yu is in the process of learning two different schools of magic,  Geomancy and Talisman magic. While not combat ready as of yet he is  practiced enough to use them outside of it. Geomancy can control the  elements around him while Talisman magic has a large array of tricky  buffs, debuffs and illusionary effects.

Wun Yuen Yut Hei Jeung: Translated as Primordial Chaos One Chi Palm, it is a  fast pace yet defensive stance that relies solely on reflexes. Unlike  most martial arts it primarily uses Fajing, or explosive power, as its  main offensive. The style allows the practitioner to deliver short, fast  pace blows with the power of a full swing. Much like a sprinter, it  uses fast twitch muscles rather than a marathon runner which uses slow  oxidative muscles. This causes the practitioner to tire rather quickly  to offset it‘s phenomenal offensive capabilities. To increase the  efficiency of this style, Shun-Yu tends to back up his attacks with  spiritual energy for more oomph. He learned this style since he needed a  faster style and a way out of grapples. It also didn’t help that he  thought the name was funny.

 Unorthodox Kickboxing: While he  originally learned it solely to compete in a competition, he uses this style for numerous reasons. Being the most recent fighting style he‘s learned, it is also the one he uses against not as skilled fighters as well as against others to prevent them from learning his primary  fighting style. He also found out that this stance complements his  supernatural powers quite well. Unlike most kick boxers, he learned this  style mainly by copying his brother-in-arms and thus incorporates quite  a few grappling moves not found in any kickboxing school. Shun-Yu tends to incorporate strikes and grapples from this stance into his main  fighting stance.

 Eighteen Arms of Wushu: Shun-Yu learned and  mastered how to use all eighteen main melee weapons used in Chinese  Wushu despite being too lazy to study any form of Wushu itself. These  weapons are saber, spear, straight sword, staff, halberd, axe, battle  axe, hook sword, fork, steel whip, mace, hammer, talon, trident, lance,  short cudgel, stick and meteor hammer. During his service in a war, he  also learned how to properly use a bow, though he generally refuse to  for reasons even he is unsure of. When using his primary weapon, he  makes full use of his halberd expertise, though he incorporates some  techniques from other weapons occasionally to throw off his opponents.

Hopping  Vampire: Like every other vampire, Shun-Yu has a large array of  pointless weaknesses. These weaknesses include, but are not limited to;  sticky rice, chicken blood, eight sided mirrors, geomantic compasses,  peach wood, thunder, bells, gongs, silver swords bathed in moonlight and  coin swords. While he won’t be destroyed by any of them due to his age,  they still act like as a powerful repellent. In addition, if a yellow  paper strips with words or symbols of power written in red ink or blood  is placed on his head, he will become inanimate until the talisman is  removed. This is made even worst as the talisman he carries while  studying Talisman magic work for this effect.

One of the key  characteristics of the Jiang Shi is that they hop around as their main  form of mobility. This is due to their stiff bodies and a bamboo pole on  their back they use for support. Unlike his mindless counterparts,  Shun-Yu doesn’t have a pole on his back anymore and is as flexible if  not more so then a regular human, though he still hops to travel around.  While the young vampire can go very short distances walking, he  generally feels more comfortable hopping then walking. This makes him  look even more ridiculous than he already did, though doesn‘t inhibit  his fighting unless the fight is for a prolonged period of time at which  point it makes him fairly predictable.

 Undead: While Shun-Yu  isn’t entirely evil, his body remains animated due to the negative  energies within himself. Coming into contact with positive energies  cancel out the negative energies within him, causing him to receive  damage instead of being healed. While positive based attacks do not  cause extra damage, they instead drain the vampire an equivalent amount  of his reserves. This means positive attacks can knock out the vampire  at an insane rate.

 Blind: While Shun-Yu has an incredible sense  of hearing and can sense the ethereal energies around him, he cannot see  light nor color. He cannot see simple inanimate objects and tends to  trip over them, making others think he‘s a klutz. While he can sense  people and other living beings almost flawlessly, he cannot see them so  long as they hold their breath. This is because by holding one’s breath,  they conceal their chi, making them effectively invisible not only to  him but most Chinese mythological creatures.